Archive - October 31, 2024

It’s a Small World After All by Dorothy Crews Herzberg (Nigeria 1961-63) IndependentlyPublished 132 pages October 2024 $12.00 (Paperback)   When Dorothy Crews Herzberg joined the Peace Corps in 1961, she was unaware that the program had not yet been approved by the U.S. Congress. The Corps’ proponents were hedging the strategy that having four hundred volunteers already working overseas would strengthen their case. While serving in the Peace Corps Dorothy Crews married Hershel Herzberg, and from 1961 to 1963 they wrote letters to her parents. Dorothy’s father saved and carefully preserved the fragile blue air letters. Every page of “Me, Madam” illuminates the energy of Nigeria immediately after independence. The author’s letters convey with intimacy what it was like to be there as the people struggled to create a new democracy.  

Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Wm Evensen (Peru 1964-66) Description John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson: Collection of Presidential Bill Signing Pens. Likely the finest collection of Bill Signing Pens ever assembled. A set of 50 fountain pens, used by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, housed in a 27 1/2″ x 38″ frame with green backing, the presidential seal at the top center, and with the caption “With these fifty pens, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the foundation of the great society which was passed by the historic and fabulous first session of the 89th Congress” at the bottom of the frame. The opened pens measure out to 5.25″ long and the closed capped pens measure out to 6.25″ long. Each pen has a caption box beneath it with the name of the act signed into law and the date of when it happened. While the presentation does . . .